A detective text-based adventure, based off the Werewolf/Mafia party game and influenced by Among Us and the Danganronpa series.
You're in a building with 9 other people, and one of them is a brutal killer. Don't get caught by them, and use your abilities and your logic skills to solve the mystery and vote the right person in the trial!
The way I decided to implement the "loop" was as a series of events that repeat: you can explore and talk to people during the day, and either hide away or risk your life during the night, and those events will repeat until you either get the killer executed, or you lose the game.
Obs: I couldn't write some of the characters' profiles because I didn't have enough time. I hope you can read through what's the general story about by just reading the ones that are available.
UPDATE 1: solved some breaking bugs tonight (4/10/2020).
UPDATE 2: fixed a crash that happens during the trial voting sometimes (5/10/2020)
HOW TO PLAY: download the executable and run it IN YOUR TERMINAL. The whole game happens inside there. If you find any bugs or have suggestions please don't be afraid to bother me!
There seems to be an issue with confirmation (Enter) on Windows (perhaps CRLF vs LF) that always prints "Please enter an acceptable integer" and once I typed 22 followed by Enter and the game just freaked out (eating all inputs, waiting for some magical character that wasn't coming is my guess). If you manage to fix some of these issues I would be happy to try it again, I love console games.
@listonos i just found out a lot of things i was doing was usual for unix systems but for windows, the input process the way i was doing was a real pain. thanks for telling me, i think i managed to fix it now and i trimmed out a lot of useless feedback like this “Please enter an acceptable integer”.
@john-gabriel fun fact when i was playtesting i actually voted for the wrong person but hadn't gained a lot of trust, so the one who was chosen to be executed by the majority was another character. and it just ended up being the killer xD
so yeah if you can definitely guess the killer by pure luck, but using abilities and exploring during nighttime are supposed to be the optimal strategy.
Damn it John, I should have caught you earlier! Loved the game, very intrigueing and fun. I love among us and had a go at danganrompa so i see what you are going with.
If you choose to expand this game then I would love to see more ways of finding out the killer as it was kinda luck at times.
Great job though, its been a while since I played an enticing text based adventure! :smile: Well done!
yes if you don't use your abilities well or at all, you are left to your own luck. but *some* abilities are pretty useful in finding out who's the killer.
for example, getting Night Owl (Odette's skill) lets you walk around at night and not be instantly killed upon meeting the murderer, and Pick Lock (Amanda's skill) lets you check who's in their room and who's not when you're in the Inn Hallway at night. i *believe* that the optimal ability is to combine them to safely find out who has been up to shady stuff during the night.
John's (Perfect Bluff) is also pretty useful in trials, if you have a suspicion on who's the killer.
@jegus9 hi yeah I played the game, it's this thing with me and my friends where we really want to learn rust but have no idea how to start, so seeing a rust game just made me really happy :)
I happened to talk to people in the right order so I couldn't be be instant-deathed, and was able to figure it out after checking the places people had last been to. Walking around after examining people didn't really do much for me, so it was faster to just go to sleep and then see who died unfortunately haha. Nice job!
@danielblanco3d i'm sorry for that. the game was developed from scratch in Rust, and has not been signed or registered anywhere, that's why your antivirus is suspecting it.
but i promise you it doesn't do anything shady :sweat_smile:
maybe you can try and use WSL to execute the linux version? that might work better
- game got stuck when voting for the first killer, wouldn't accept input.